simracing, history books, cloudspotting
married with children, breaking bad
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https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20260604-french-iranian-author-marjane-satrapi-author-of-persepolis-dies-at-56 I'm sad that Marjane Satrapi has died.
I have often come across the quote below. Before reposting it, I wanted to verify it. And I found out it's from a 2005 Salon interview https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/ -- during the time I worked at Salon! A neat coincidence for me.
Apparently the all hosted nexclouds are unreachable because the wildcard `*.your-storageshare.de` certificate has expired. Good morning and #hugops. Phone support is overloaded and this is a cert from DigiCert. If this was Let's Encrypt, I'd at least have the confidence that it's fixable in mere minutes....
Meta Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram. It Worked.
Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy.
A jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll.
Now, the DOJ is investigating her.
This is exactly why survivors stay silent.
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Libraries are more than buildings filled with books. They are an interconnected public network built on preservation and sharing.
“If we don’t have the one you want, we can get it for you,” is a promise shaped generations of readers through interlibrary loan, public access, and librarians committed to making knowledge available to everyone.
3/3 Kahle argues that libraries help create an informed citizenry by preserving books, films, music, and historical records across generations.
“Our evolving digital age can be our next Carnegie moment or it can be a Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us.”
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"Just put your telescopes in space!" say the techbros. 73% (!!!) of a new space telescope's images already have satellite streaks in them.
“Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community.”

Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist whose name and work you may recognize from the Oscar-winning movie Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community. "The RACE to b…